№18, (2006)

Kyiv’s first children’s charity fair opened on May 31 at Ukraine House. Organized by the Publishers’ Forum, the fair is not sponsored either by the state or the private sector. According to the forum...

What kind of a coalition agreement will be formed in Ukraine and most importantly, how will the most “sensitive” issues be formulated in it? These questions probably have far more weight than the...

On May 31 Kyiv hosted a ceremony to conclude “My Native Land,” a competition of children’s art works. The contest is an unusual one, as all the participants were preschoolers from every Ukrainian...

(Continued from no. 17)5. INDEPENDENT UKRAINE RULED BY THE SOVIET-COMMUNIST PARTY NOMENKLATURA Earlier I mentioned that the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet system were different phenomena, but in...

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kyiv held a soiree commemorating Ambassador’s Viktor Chernomyrdin’s fifth anniversary at his post. The Russian diplomat decided to stage the celebration as a...

June 6 (Journalists Day in Ukraine) 2000: During US President Bill Clinton’s visit to Ukraine, his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma announces the date for shutting down the Chornobyl nuclear power...

In 2002 Ukraine announced its policy of Euro-Atlantic integration, with NATO membership as the ultimate goal. During the recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine, election frontrunners avoided the...

Ukraine has just participated a second time in a meeting of the 42 countries that signed the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management....

In 2003 the Vinnytsia Oblast Ethnographic Museum obtained a set of personal papers from the archive of Hnat Yastrubetsky, a little known Ukrainian cultural and musical figure of the 1920s. Among the...

Did the Ukrainian government react adequately to the incident involving an American merchant ship that was blocked in the port of Feodosia? Who stands to gain from this kind of provocation? The Day...

“This project is based on 1984 technical specifications, and there seems to be no end to it. We shall see what happens next. There will be a special announcement on this matter,” Russian Defense...

“You can’t wait for handouts from the government. You have to grab a pitchfork and fight for freedom for Ukrainian books,” say the publishing duo, the Kapranov brothers. Book-publishing is not a...

Since childhood I have heard and learned many Ukrainian folk songs. But when I became an adult and first heard Nina Matvienko, I couldn’t understand where she got her deep timbre and her powerful...

Dietmar Studemann, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine, has held this post for almost six years. Even though his diplomatic mission will end...

On June 2 the Crimean parliament held an unscheduled session to form a new government for this autonomous republic. Seventy-five out of 93 registered deputies voted to install Viktor Plakyda, a...